HBG WW1 Set

I own some of HBG’s Light Blue pieces, and I’d say this picture…

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/HBG-Battle-Pieces--Allies-Supplement-set-Light-Blue_p_1132.html

…represents their shade a little more accurately than this picture…

http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/HBG-Battle-Pieces--WW2-Neutrals-Basic-Set-Light-Blue_p_717.html

…in which they look a little darker than reality.  But whichever picture you look at, HBG’s Light Blue pieces (which I also think of as baby blue or powder blue or pastel blue) are a very different shade from HBG’s French Blue pieces (which are a rich medium blue, essentially identical to the OOB French pieces from Europe 1940).  As Redking said, there’s no way that the Light Blue and French Blue units could ever be confused with each other on the game board.  The OOB 1940 French pieces and the HBG French Blue pieces are close in shade to the OOB 1914 French pieces (which are a little darker), but still distinctive. So depending on your requirements, you can treat those two sets of pieces as representing either units of the same country or units of different countries; the difference in shade lends itself to either one of those two interpretations, which is something I like about them because it gives flexibility.

Hopefully this helps a bit. Left to right:

OOB French G40, HBG Allied Supplement in French Blue, HBG Neutral Light Blue, HBG Allied Supplement in Light Blue

@Variable:

Hopefully this helps a bit. Left to right: OOB French G40, HBG Allied Supplement in French Blue, HBG Neutral Light Blue, HBG Allied Supplement in Light Blue

Thanks, this is a good reference picture.

Anything new, Coach?

Thx for the update!
Great news!

-> Have you decided on the destroyer and transport yet?
-> Can you already confirm light blue (horizon blue) being amongst the colours of the set?

Thx in advance!

See my posts on page 2 in this thread!

So to be 100% clear: There will be a light blue set for this, correct?

Second: You did find my posts regarding destroyers and transports on page 2?

I suggest you scrap all that…

Replace the OOB naval with

New battleship, cruiser, destroyer, and transport for both Central and entente ( 8 sculpts). The OOB naval are horrible.

Then make zeppelins, Rail guns (2 sculpts), and a fortress piece. One tank for central powers could be done, 2 new artillery ( central and allies) and possibly armored car ( 2 sculpts)

16-17 new sculpts.

Why do you spoil this topic with this suggestion?

Coach’s set is fine as it is with different sculpts for each piece like A&A is supposed to be!

And you get your own game released following this pattern already!
(nice effort! +)

So there is absolutely NO need to follow this approach with the HBG set as well!

Because the OOB pieces are horrible. Why would they want all French ships?

French equipment was widely used by smaller neutral and minor nations. So this set is intended to provide pieces for Neutrals, Minors, and supplement oob French etc… That would be why all French. This is not meant to be the “end all, do all” of HBG WWI pieces.

Will they look like these?

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1659903/axis-allies-wwi-1914

@Imperious:

Because the OOB pieces are horrible. Why would they want all French ships?

Answer is simple:
So that I can buy the French set and replace ALL OOB units with them!

After that I pray that the set will be a success so that Coach decides to make the next set, namely the German one.

So that I can replace……

and so on! :-D

P.S.: In addition units like cavalry or destroyers are a welcome edition for even more WWI like play! :-)

It is more economical to just have one central power ship and one entente ship for each class using iconic ships. That way you get everything replaced by just buying different colors. Who will wait 10 years to get every conceivable nation? The game will be passed up by lots of new games by then. If you just work on the obvious things first, you fixed the major problems. I don’t want the French naval designs to be used by central power forces.

I am sure we can wait some more months to use your pieces then!

So I am absolutely fine with Coach’s perfectly historical French set!

See, every piece as the representative choice for the specific unit IS the optimum solution in the long run for EVERY WWI based game being it A&A 1914, your or my own game orwhatever other!

In geek dreamland we ALL want it this way, don’t we?  :wink:

I just want the best for Coach. Economics must be considered. No matter what i buy 6 sets